Image: Guadalupe Maravilla featured in the cover of Terremoto magazine.
YES Contemporary Art Writers Grant is dedicated to cultivate critical dialog around topics relevant to contemporary Salvadoran art. This year, YES partnered with Terremoto magazine to award a writer based anywhere in the world, a $500 honorarium as well as the publication by Terremoto.
Terremoto is a cultural platform dedicated to critical thinking around contemporary art that takes place in the American continent with an editorial approach that starts from trans/feminist knowledge, the decolonial and queer/kuir quest that triggers artistic and curatorial practices.
YES Grant for Art Writers was established in 2015, with support from Gabriela Poma and Susanne Meline.
Click here for more information about YES Art Writers Grants.
YES TEAM VISITS ARTISTS STUDIOS
Image: Studio visits with Abigail Reyes and Walterio Iraheta. Courtesy Walterio Iraheta.
YES team’s Patricio Majano and Omar Lopez-Chahoud carried out an intensive program of artists and studio visits, reviewing the work of more than 28 Salvadoran artists, and visiting galleries, museums, workshops and other art spaces in El Salvador.
YES ONLINE STUDIO VISITS Melissa Guevara and Maya Juracán
This month, Salvadoran artist Melissa Guevara (left) met with Guatemalan curator Maya Juracán(right). Guevara is an artist based in Bogota, Colombia, and is currently in residency at Materia Gris, in La Paz, Bolivia. Guevara workswith the collective The Fire Theory, of which she is a founding member. Read more about Melissa's work here.
Maya Juracán is the Chief Curator of the Biennial in Resistance and Co-curator of the 21st Paiz Art Biennial, Beyond (2018). Juracán directs the visual arts training program at Fundación Paiz, Guatemala. She is the allied curator of the House of Memory (CALDH) working with the critical management of Guatemalan historical memory, part of understanding the territory and strengthening the dialogues of community feminism as a tool to think of space as an epistemological relationship in flow, the body in its relationship with this space, time, movement and memory. She is part of La Revuelta del Arte collective.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
CARAVANA: MOBILIZING CENTRAL AMERICAN ART (1984-PRESENT) Collective exhibition at SOMA Arts Cultual Center in San Francisco
More about the exhibition here
Image: Kiara Machado. Courtesy the artist.
INTERGALACTICXS: AGAINST ISOLATION Collective exhibition at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition
See the exhibition here
Image: Beatriz Cortez. Courtesy the artist
HENRY RAMÍREZAT ARTE EN MAYO
Henry Ramírez awarded with an Honorific Mention in Arte en Mayo
See the exhibition catalog here
Image: Henry Ramírez. Courtesy the artist.
QUOTE SOMTHING FROM THIS PAINTING Fredy Solan
Online exhibition
See the exhibition here
Image: Fredy Solan. Courtesy the artist.
ANTONIO MENA AT ART OMI RESIDENCY
See more about Art Omi here
See more about the artist here
Image: Antonio Mena. Courtesy the artist.
EL SALVADOR NEWS
ARRASA TODO
Collective exhibition Yerbera Estudio
May 15
More about the exhibition here
Image: Dalia Chévez. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Lucy Tomasino.
LIBRO PARA COLOREAR
Walterio Iraheta
Luis Poma Theater
More about the artist here
Image: Walterio Iraheta. Courtesy the artist
FEMME ART HOUSE
Collective exhibition at La Resi
May 14
More information here
Image: Erika Pirl. Courtesy the artist.
LABORATORIX01
Collective exhibition at La Única
May 08- June 20
More information here
Image: María Obsidiana. Courtesy Galería la Única and the artist
EN LA CALMA
Alex Cuchilla en Galería 1-2-3
May 27
More about the artist here
Image: Alex Cuchilla. Courtesy the artist.
EFECTO APOTROPAICO
Exhibition by Colectiva Amorales
May 21
More information about the exhibition here
Image: Courtesy Colectiva Amorales.
NADIE (JAVIER RAMÍREZ) AT CIRCO
Opening May 12
See more about the artist here
Image: Nadie (Javier Ramírez). Courtesy the artist.
PPMCK
Gerardo Gómez
Pinacoteca Roque Dalton
More about the exhibition here
Image: Gerardo Gómez. Courtesy the artist
SITIOS 04
Collective exhibition
May 22 and 29
X building, Downtown San Salvador
Read Artishock’s article about Sitios here
Image: Vladimir Renderos. Courtesy the artist
PRESS
GUADALUPE MARAVILLA FEATURED IN TERREMOTO MAGAZINE
US-based Salvadoran artist Guadalupe Maravilla is part of the issue number 20 of Terremoto Magazine, and his work is featured in the cover of the printed version. This issue presents works of artists reflecting on themes such as trauma, illness and death.
Read the issue here.
See more about the artist here.
Image: Guadalupe Maravilla. Courtesy the artist.
Exhibition review
LABORATORIX 01
LA ÚNICA GALERÍA
By Patricio Majano
Image: Gabriela Novoa. Courtesy la Única Galería.
Galería La Única presents Laboratorix 01, an exhibition featuring the results of an experimental workshop hosted by the gallery, that addressed the gender roles that are present in Salvadoran society.
It is important to recognize that Salvadoran culture is predominantly patriarchal and heteronormative, and that this has been assimilated in part of the artistic production, especially during previous decades.
Image: Roberto Cardona. Courtesy la Única Galería.
This exhibition opposes to this aspect of Salvadoran and Latin American culture, questioning it to address important issues such as gender equality, discrimination, body image, and more, drawing on the experiences of each artist, which enriches the dialogues that can be created from the artworks.
Image: Gabriel Galego. Courtesy la Única Galería.
The exhibition is clear in its statements, claiming a place in the arts for the presence of these dialogues that reject conventionally patriarchal culture.
